Rapid Response 47 is another Trump white alt spewing racist shit
this post was submitted on 10 Dec 2025
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"Cool and trendy"?
Yes, it's popular among the youth in the USA/Canada and Europe to be very accepting of Islam as if it's as benign as any other religion. And people (westerners) respect the hijab, oppression of women, and it's socially acceptable somehow now that they can drink and have sex but not eat pork and call themselves good Muslims. If anything they bash Christianity and Judaism extra hard because that is the status quo and give some kind of social pass to Islam because they are discriminated against in Canada or something? It's pathetic to be honest with you
It is as benign as any other religion. That is to say that none of them are benign
I mean, fair enough. I'll admit I'm biased against Islam because of my experiences and upbringing but there is some weird exception progressives seem to have for Muslims
Because muslims are overly criticised and targeted specifically for their religion in the West.
Muslims shouldn't be targeted because they are Muslims.
And
Religion doesn't have its place in a progressive society.
There are 2 distinct issues, but they are almost always conflated, because it makes it easy to derail the discussions and debates.
It wasn't near as loud among them until the Free Palestine movement. It was there, but FP put it more at the forefront in online circles.
Maybe in the states but in Canada and Europe its been prevalent for the last 10 years at least. Us Arabs are now the minority flavor of the week for white sympathy, and young people who don't know any better think they should suddenly tolerate our intolerance because we're disenfranchised. And that sucks because 10 years down the line some radical fuck is gonna do some extremist bullshit in "little Mogadishu" and anti-arab sentiment will become popular again, rinse and repeat